Detainment

2018 30 min ★ 6.7 Drama, Crime, Documentary

Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler.

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Cast

Ely Solan

Jon

Leon Hughes

Robert

Will O'Connell

Detective Dale

David Ryan

Detective Scott

Tara Breathnach

Susan Venables

Morgan C. Jones

Detective Roberts

Brian Fortune

Detective Jacobs

Kathy Monahan

Ann Thompson

Killian Sheridan

Neil Venables

Martin Phillips

Jon's Solicitor

Details

Director

Vincent Lambe

Tagline

"A true story based on interview transcripts and records"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Twelve Media

Reviews

C

CinemaSerf

February 14, 2026

★ 6/10

There are two really impressive and emotionally-charged performances from Ely Solan and Leon Hughes here but the rest of the feature seems uncomfortably prurient. It was huge news in the UK in 1993 when toddler James Bulger was abducted and murdered by two older children, so this dramatisation is bound to touch nerves as it uses selected transcripts from their police interviews to map out just wha...